“Hiatus Kaiyote’s music stretches and bends every parameter.” - Jon Pareles / The New York Times The album was a six year journey, but is more of a hustle than a hiatus - it is an act of love, of courage, of brother-and-sisterhood, of altered perspective.

The band travelled to Rio de Janeiro in late-2019 to work on the album with legendary Brazilian arranger Arthur Verocai, which led to the infectious lead single “Get Sun” (feat. Paak, Chance The Rapper, and Drake - with whom Nai Palm collaborated with on Scorpion. The new project comes after the band has been sampled on songs by The Carters (Beyonce & Jay-Z), Kendrick Lamar, Anderson. Watch HK’s rendition of “Dare” below.Comprised of Naomi “Nai Palm” Saalfield (guitar, vocals), Paul Bender (bass), Simon Mavin (keys), and Perrin Moss (drums), the twice-Grammy-nominated group Hiatus Kaiyote returns to announce their new album Mood Valiant via Brainfeeder Records / Ninja Tune. Perhaps it’s this sort of inter-species synergy that gives the group their funky superpowers, but whatever it is it’s working and we can’t wait for Choose Your Weapon to drop on May 5th. Here we have a band called Hiatus Kaiyote covering Gorillaz wearing clothing that reads “WOLF” after discussing the amount of owl, parrot and cat sounds that are due to appear on their upcoming album. Both bands thrive on a singular approach to R&B and are often running off into sounds that are ahead of their time, confident in we listeners’ ability to eventually catch up.īut it’d be a mistake not to point out just how many animals are involved in this live performance.

By the end of the cover performance it becomes obvious just how perfect a match the Australian act is for a Gorillaz tune.

Their lush new polyrhythmic take on the song’s chorus–that “never did no harm” bit that never leaves your head once you’ve heard it–is proof of how open-minded and skilled a band Hiatus has become. Melbourne neo-R&B quartet Hiatus Kaiyote rolled through Triple J‘s studios yesterday to perform an uptempo cover of the Gorrilaz‘ 2005 hit “Dare.” Led by untamed vocals of frontwoman Nai Palm and the roving basswork of Paul Bender, the group’s new take on the song is a little leaner and meaner than the original.

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